The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age

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    By Flavius on Wed, 10/16/2013 - 4:33am |

    The White House must take control of the Obamacare registration process.

    Rather than 'first come first not served' it should impose some sort of "rationing": perhaps this Friday only applicants whose names begin with "A" Monday the B's , etc until the demand shrinks sufficiently .

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    This is a fine idea.

    Incremental.

    I like that.

    We could use this method in a number of areas affecting our population.

    For instance:

    In 2014, only those people with last names beginning with A thru D could receive their full SS benefits.

    Then in 2015, only those people with last names beginning with A thru G...and so on.

    In 2014, only those people with last names beginning with A thru D could vote.

    In 2014 only those people with last names beginning with A thru D could receive food stamps...and so on.

    Now just because my last name begins with 'D' has nothing to do with all of this.

    I mean we could save our government trillions over the next decade and we could abolish national debt and I could start a company that would aid the dispossessed in name changes!

    We could be partners and make a mint!


    by Richard Day on Wed, 10/16/2013 - 4:44am

    I remember my Aunt Mary who was born in 1898, have a hard time signing up for Medicare when it came on line.  It took several trips and many phone calls to the local Medicare office in the same building as SS.  Her application kept getting lost over a 6 month period.  When she finally got her card, it was the first time in her life she had health insurance.  Medicare had all kinds of glitches too.  Massive programs always start out rocky.  My beef with this is allowing states to op out of Medicaid.  That is hard on the working poor.  My adult children would love to wait on line for insurance with all it glitches, and on the phone, but have been denied because they make less then 138% of poverty level.  That is where the real shame is not an over whelmed computer system.


    by trkingmomoe on Wed, 10/16/2013 - 8:05pm

    I worked-later- for the guy who'd been essentially the technical manager at nasa in the 60s. His firm rule was he would never fly in a plane until it had been in commercial service for a year .

    He was dying to use the Concorde but he waited for the year to be over .. We're not smart enough to design a test which  =s what you learn from experience.


    by Flavius on Thu, 10/17/2013 - 3:33am